Overview

Through an Acceptance Commitment Therapy framework, this webinar will outline how psychologists can promote flexibility in young people and parents, and guides through key practical strategies and adaptations to help the psychologist ensure their work is fun, flexible, and impactful.

Level of Learning

Intermediate. This activity is targeted to those who have some previous learning on the topic.

Duration of access

Access to the recording and presenter slides is for 12 months from the date of confirmed registration.

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This activity has been assessed against the APS Standards for CPD activities and approved for its education quality. Learn more about the APS CPD Approval process.

Related activities

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with children

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Activity details

On-demand webinar recording.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this webinar, participants should be able to:

• connect with young people using the language and foundations of ACT while developing a compassionate ACT 
• teach flexibility to young people to enable them to handle difficult thoughts and feelings as they emerge
• describe incidental mindfulness as alternatives to meditation when it is disliked or ineffective,
• identify ways to work with acceptance and experiential avoidance, and
• guide young people towards a valued and meaningful life in the face of difficulty.

Presenter(s)

Jodie Wassner MAPS

About the presenter(s)

Jodie Wassner is an Educational and Developmental Psychologist with over 25 years experience counselling young people and their families in Melbourne and Sydney. She divides her professional time equally between clinic work with young people and educational training via local and international workshops, as well as supervision for psychologists and provisional psychologists worldwide. Jodie has co-written a ten-session manual for psychologists working with anxious children using the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and has written a clinician's guide to using ACT with children, including a comprehensive section on neurodiversity.
She is especially familiar with the issues that are likely to emerge across the developmental period and has extensive experience working with anxiety, depression, autism, attention deficits, learning difficulties, grief, anger, family conflict, bullying, sleep disturbance, stress management, social skills, school attendance problems, eating disturbance and OCD.